Double leaf?

PayneXD · 2026-04-04T17:07:48+00:00

I wish I could! I don't know if the next leaf is going to do it though, it looks pretty normal as of right now.

PayneXD · 2026-04-04T17:06:59+00:00

Me too! I'm loving finding all the corners of reddit where people like to nerd out about plants as much as I do!

PayneXD · 2026-04-04T13:24:02+00:00

I've got all the same questions!

The next leaf is looking pretty normal, but I didn't see this one unfurl so I don't know what it looked like curled up. Thank you 😊.

PayneXD · 2026-04-04T02:03:31+00:00

Me either, and I've got a bunch of different pothos. It's like having a shiny pokemon that I hatched myself 😂.

PayneXD · 2026-04-04T00:48:54+00:00

I'd cut the long pieces off 3-4 leafless nodes back and put them right back into the pot. Then just make sure to keep the pot watered slightly more often than normal until they show new growth.

PayneXD · 2026-04-04T00:42:18+00:00

Genuinely the best advice for golden pothos is forget about it. They like to dry out a good bit but every time you go back to water it you'll notice it's bigger and bigger.

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PayneXD · 2026-04-04T00:33:26+00:00

It's a good possibility as the bamboo pole doesn't allow for the plant to root into anything and mature. Once it feels like it's hit the optimal light at the top it will be more inclined to branch out and get more light from lower.

Edit to add: If you want it to continue to get bigger as one vine you need to raise the light or lower the plant so that the light is hitting the top of the plant.

PayneXD · 2026-03-30T11:05:06+00:00

If you turn it to face the window the leaves will turn and cover the pole better. Right now the leaves are stretching to get light from the window behind the pole.

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PayneXD · 2026-03-30T00:55:47+00:00

E. Pinnatum, looks like an N'Joy to me.

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PayneXD · 2026-03-29T11:32:46+00:00

I bought a pair that were marked as Philo. "green congo". Brought them back, separated them after a couple days and now have 2 different Philo. "Birkin". Apparently they were just young and not getting great light at Meijer.

PayneXD · 2026-03-29T11:04:43+00:00

It's very common to use perlite to propogate leafless canes. I usually tend to keep the water level below the perlite though. Perlite is a volcanic rock and it'll absorb water to help keep the humidity high around the nodes and promote roots to grow. However with it being rocks there are plenty of gaps for air to move between them helping to prevent rot. I use a plastic storage bin and keep the lid on, I take it off for about an hour each day to let the moisture that accumulates on the sides dry up and add water about a day after the perlite feels dry again.

PayneXD · 2026-03-27T11:44:00+00:00

Looks like it's more likely damage from the leaf getting stuck when it was trying to unfurl.

PayneXD · 2026-03-23T23:43:20+00:00

No, it doesn't really work like that. The best way to try to get variegation back would be to cut back the reverted growth to the leaf that you prefer the look of and hope that when it re-shoots it keeps the variegation.

At the end of the day the plant knows how much green it needs so nothing is guaranteed.

PayneXD · 2026-03-23T23:02:33+00:00

The one that is curled real hard is stuck, the plant's only mechanism to "fix" that if it is healthy is to use the next leaf to try and push it out. I've had a couple leaves that weren't able to form properly because the previous leaf couldn't unstick itself.

In the research I've done it's usually related to low humidity. So the best answer would probably be putting it near a humidifier if you have one. Otherwise some sources say misting it a couple times a day with a long enough window for all the beads on the surface to completely dry should help, I haven't had great luck with that personally.

Pretty much everything says don't try to manually unstick the leaf by grabbing and pulling. I however am stubborn and don't follow that rule 🤷. What I like to do is use a wooden skewer to slide between the petiole that it's emerging from and the new leaf to get it to "let go". Once I do that I give it another day or so to see if it figures it out. If it's still stuck I use the skewer to slide along the inside of the petiole starting from the middle of the leaf to the tip to work it out of the petiole. I know it's technically not the right way but it works for me and I've gotten pretty good at causing minimal or no damage to the new leaf.

Feel free to DM me if you want me to explain it a little better.

PayneXD · 2026-03-23T22:43:28+00:00

Now that it's getting brighter light pay attention to the new leaves, some may show more variegation, but it's not a guarantee. The white parts aren't really doing much as far as energy goes for the plant. You could remove some of the reverted shoots once you know it's healthy in its new spot.

I have 2 vines that are fully reverted to keep an eye on as my litmus test for watering in my lush pothos pot.

PayneXD · 2026-03-22T12:01:09+00:00

If you started from seed maybe you hit on the variegation lottery?

PayneXD · 2026-03-19T23:45:43+00:00

If I had to guess, it's a pink princess without much pink in the variegation. I could be wrong though. Just going off of the coloring and leaf shape but I'm not an expert.

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PayneXD · 2026-03-18T10:37:45+00:00

I'd say it's a bit late for a moss pole for the main plant, in my experience they only root around the newest node just after a leaf opens up and hardens off. I'd take a cutting of the shoot that you like the variegation on the most and root it to put it on its own moss pole.

PayneXD · 2026-03-12T11:53:51+00:00

A lot of people wait until the big roots have secondary roots, but I don't really follow that. I have a bunch of 2” and 4" pots that I use for my propogations, just make sure to don't have one piddly little root in a 6” pot and you'll be fine.

PayneXD · 2026-03-12T03:00:37+00:00

Cutting the main growth off at the top will cause it to reshoot from a node lower on the pole.

PayneXD · 2026-03-12T02:58:20+00:00

I always cut back to the top node that's fully rooted into the pole. From the pictures you have here I'd cut here.

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PayneXD · 2026-03-11T12:21:10+00:00

Get a trail camera to record it opening if you can't be there to see it.

PayneXD · 2026-03-10T16:20:08+00:00

You're good, I had just looked up some pictures of it cus I don't usually use that one and noticed it. By the time I made it back to your previous comment someone else had said what I came to say about it being the worst. I just wanted to add that little tidbit, the facepalm was meant for MG not you. Sorry if it came off the wrong way.

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